{"id":353410,"date":"2026-06-09T18:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353410\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:11:16","slug":"kern-county-fair-reveals-first-act-in-2026-concert-series-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353410\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Fair reveals first act in 2026 concert series lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Fair is starting to announce the lineup for the 2026 Hard Rock Casino Tejon Concert Series at the Budweiser Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Country artist ERNEST will be performing on the opening night.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Fair will be announcing two concerts each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays through July 16.<\/p>\n<p>The concerts are first-come, first-served and are free with a ticket to the Kern County Fair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Kern County Fair sets up Monday evening for their grand opening on Wednesday. This is the first time the fair has held in-person festivities since 2019. (KBAK\/KBFX){p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13205da0-bff8-482e-9109-86da2a12f04b-large16x9_IMG_5874.jpg\"\/>The Kern County Fair sets up Monday evening for their grand opening on Wednesday. This is the first time the fair has held in-person festivities since 2019. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerncountyfair.com\/p\/things-to-do\/concerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Concerts <\/a>will start at 8 p.m. each night. The 2026 Kern County Fair runs September 23 through October 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to start rolling out this year\u2019s concert lineup and give fairgoers a first look at what\u2019s coming to the Budweiser Pavilion,\u201d said Michael Olcott, CEO of the Kern County Fair. \u201cThe Hard Rock Casino Tejon Concert Series continues to be one of the most anticipated parts of the Fair, and we can\u2019t wait to share the full lineup with our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Fair is starting to announce the lineup for the 2026 Hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-353410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}